Posters of missing children may not help kids in danger

Two thousand children are reported missing every day. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children the best way to find them is to place high visibility missing persons posters.  NBC Connecticut went undercover to conduct an experiment into the usefulness of such posters and found that they often go unnoticed.  A reporter place missing child signs at a Market then the "missing" six year old girl in the poster walked around the same store with her dad for an hour.   Most store visitors didn't even notice the missing child signs. The shoppers who did see the posters, including some who took take a closer look, walked right by the girl.  Several people even talked to the girl and her dad, and yet still nobody realised the connection.  One lady said she noticed the little girl, but assumed she was okay because she didn't seem distraught. Police say this kind of mistake can be costly. Abducted children don't always act like they're in danger.  Often, they will have been lied to by their abductor and may therefore be unaware that they are in danger. It's a very disturbing lesson for us all. There is hope that child tracking devices may provide at least some answer to these problems.  However, education of the general public is also important if safety measures are not to be in vain. The original story can be found at msnbc